Road To Emmys Annual Series

For Crescenzo Notarile, ASC, AIC--who’s known throughout the industry as Crescenzo--earning his first career primetime Emmy nomination, for the “Azrael” episode of Gotham , is especially gratifying. “I’m extremely proud of it for a number of reasons. We are in the platinum age of television. The...

For the second straight year production designer Cat Smith has scored an Emmy nomination for Amazon’s Transparent , this time for the episodes “Kina Hora,” “The Book Of Life” and “Man On The Land.” While her back-to-back Transparent nods are Smith’s first two as department head (her auspicious...

There’s an adage that the best VFX are the ones you don’t notice--and that is inherently the case in the Emmy Awards category of Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role. Among this year’s nominated efforts is Hulu’s 11.22.63 , a science fiction thriller/limited series based on the...

The first primetime commercial Emmy Award was bestowed in 1997 upon HBO’s “Chimps” directed by Joe Pytka of PYTKA for BBDO NY. Since then, the spotmaking Emmy has grown in prominence and become increasingly coveted, taking on an added importance spurred on by changes in the business over the years...

Prior to yesterday’s announcement of this season’s Emmy nominations, SHOOT connected with varied contenders over a two-month stretch spanning different disciplines and as it turns out a good number of the artisans we covered in parts 1 through 8 of our The Road To Emmy series of feature stories...

While shooting his first collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street , cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC found the filmmaker talking about a couple other projects which they could (and eventually would) also team on--one being the upcoming feature film Silence (a...

Artist perspectives in this installment of The Road To Emmy span writer, editor and composer insights into Mr. Robot (USA Network), editorial and music POVs on The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX Networks), music for American Horror Story: Hotel (FX) and Scream Queens (FX), and a...

This installment of The Road To Emmy offers directorial and DP points of view on The Dresser (Starz), reflections from a director/consulting producer on Black Sails (Starz), and DP and production designer takes on Narcos (Netflix). The Dresser For director Richard Eyre, the Starz film The Dresser...

Artist perspectives in this installment of The Road To Emmy span directorial and production designer insights into All the Way (HBO), reflections from composers on Homeland (Showtime), Jessica Jones (Netflix) and Killing Fields (Discovery), a costume designer’s take on Billions (Showtime) and The...

For Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, creators, showrunners, writers and EPs on Cinemax’s The Knick , the second season of the series presented some daunting challenges in that the creative bar was set so high in season one, contributed to in large part by the yeoman efforts of its director,...